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August 2019 Photos

September 8, 2019 by NZ Filbruns Leave a Comment

Simon turned 18 near the beginning of the month. We had visitors over to help celebrate, and Esther baked pavlova.

19-IMG_5945Indian wrestling in our living room! Simon and Mr. Intellectual are pretty evenly matched.

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Little Miss wanted to show me her new hairstyle one day! The sticks were her hands.01-IMG_5960

One morning I noticed this helicopter spreading lime just across the river from our town. There is a company just up the hill from us that has several helicopters, and we frequently see them fly over with the fertilizer spreader dangling underneath.

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More heavy equipment going past our house!

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Here are several pictures from Miss Joy’s second week.1-IMG_59792-IMG_59804-IMG_5989

I love seeing that little head snuggling up to big brother. This is a happy baby, very much a joy to all of us!5-IMG_5992

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Miss Joy, Random Photos

She Has Arrived!

August 24, 2019 by NZ Filbruns 4 Comments

We were not anticipating meeting our new baby until at least now, but she arrived four days ago already. We are feeling incredibly blessed to have another daughter! After all the loss and trauma our family has experienced over the past three years, we are rejoicing to have new life in our home.

Maria Joy, who will henceforth be known on this blog as Miss Joy, arrived early Tuesday morning after a relatively easy labor. She weighed 7 pounds, 1.5 ounces, and was 19 inches long, our second-smallest baby. She is very happy so far, waking up every few hours to have a feed, look around for awhile at the fascinating world of light and listen to the sounds around her, have another feed and go back to sleep. She occasionally gets laid down in the bassinet—but most of the time people clamor to hold her! The three teenage boys, especially, argue good-naturedly about who gets to hold the baby!

Here is our precious newborn, just a few hours old.02-IMG_2239

Do you think they were excited?03-IMG_2241

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Mr. Sweetie05-IMG_2243

Little Miss finally had the prayer answered which she prayed at least a year and a half ago, for a sister.06-IMG_224407-IMG_596108-IMG_596409-IMG_5967

The morning after she was born, we compared her feet to Mr. Intellectual’s big toe!10-IMG_224911-IMG_2251

I got to hold two daughters at once!12-IMG_225213-IMG_2255

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Photo-bombers! This is Mr. Diligence and Simon. (Simon, by the way, thinks he is entitled to hold the baby any time he’s at home! He feels like he misses out on a lot because he has to work.)16-IMG_2257

Poor Simon had to do schoolwork last night and let his daddy hold the baby!18-IMG_2258

This is what is happening right now. Mr. Sweetie asked if he could hold the sleeping baby, and promptly fell asleep with her!19-IMG_5977

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Miss Joy, New Baby

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